| Five minutes later a new, keening note appears accompanied by an occasional clang like the hull of an ocean liner being hammered in dry-dock. |
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| He went rigid with excitement and did a jig around the living room, keening an unearthly croon of delight. |
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| The keening voice of the Malian singer wafts from a five-month-old pan-African restaurant just down the block. |
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| Amongst the moans of the wind, they hear a keening wail that sets her hairs standing up. |
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| As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody. |
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| Here it's given a starker treatment, compellingly enhanced by Eliza's keening harmonies. |
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| As the van engine was switched off, a faint keening sound was audible from the back of the vehicle. |
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| The keening sound of the upper strings provides a lasting memorial for those departed. |
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| People naturally respond to the diminutive sax man's keening sound, funky rhythms and bluesy riffs. |
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| Their songs have a certain keening shrillness that will leave all but the hardiest nerves frazzled and jangling. |
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| But everywhere I turn, there is a constant keening lament about how bad the site has gotten, as compared to its long-past Glory Days. |
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| Its overdriven, delay-drenched keening performs a bizarre balancing act that puts it exactly between space and country rock. |
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| The band's signature sound comprises spacey vibes and keening tones, laced through with breathy flute, a lot of struck guitar and very little regular rhythm. |
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| Then there was the high keening wail of the emergency vehicles. |
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| The air keening through the empty window seems colder somehow. |
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| What they found instead was an ill-behaved, keening dog launching herself acrobatically into the river. |
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| As tabloid values get a hammering, a ghastly, keening note of smug middle-class sanctimoniousness has been added. |
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| Surprisingly though, when Dad arrived home he found that his mother was being very stoic, while his father was keening. |
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| A wounded woman sat keening on the ground, clasping the body of her dead child in her arms. |
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| His keening caterwaul sounds as if he had flicked the ejector switch but forgotten to undo his seat belt. |
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| Her seminal musical works use what are called extended vocal techniques, such as overtone and throat singing, yodeling, keening, percussive sounds, and micro-tonality. |
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| And Alex Thorne's high-pitched, keening vocals soar above the mix. |
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| A wild keening came from a rocky fissure across which the wind was blowing and making a high organ note of dismal sound. |
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| It's the deep, dark keening sound of the cello, the twilight voicings of the piano and the perfect, pure pitch of Paula Morelenbaums creamy voice. |
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| The opening song places keening flutes and whispered vocal over an insistent pulse of clay drums and thumb pianos, punctuated by occasional bursts of talking drum. |
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| He heard the wind, keening and rushed outside. |
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| I become the wind. I wind and wend my mournsome way, I thread the trees with keening. |
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| She crinkles her brow and then, on cue, she emits a keening howl. |
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| Now, he is surrounded by strobing lights and throbbing keyboards, the keening slide guitars of David Vandervelde and some bawdy band crescendos lit up in the purple of a roadside cathouse. |
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| Nick preferred the open alley, with its ripe rankness and keening draft. |
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| But for now just crank up the volume and play Deeds Not Words, a barnstormer which opens with keening bagpipes before breaking in to squealing rock and roll guitar. |
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| The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge. |
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